arXiv:2512.03216physics.ins-detcs.CV2025-12

用镜面结构增强光收集,实现单光子相机对粒子事件的高精度三维成像。

Kaleidoscopic Scintillation Event Imaging

  • 设计镜面反射结构,将事件光在已知位置复制多份以提升采集效率。
  • 在商用CMOS单光子相机上实现高分辨率三维事件定位,精度达毫米级。
  • 适用于核辐射探测、粒子物理等需要高灵敏度成像的领域。

闪烁体是能与高能粒子相互作用并发出可见光的透明材料,广泛应用于高能粒子和辐射源的测量。现有方法多采用高速单像素探测器记录闪烁事件的时间信息,而相机虽具空间分辨能力,但只能平均多次事件,难以捕捉单个粒子事件。新兴的单光子雪崩二极管相机结合了速度与空间分辨率,可捕捉单个事件图像,从而支持机器视觉分析,催生新型探测器。主要挑战在于事件亮度极低,需在极少量光子条件下工作。本文提出一种“万花筒式”闪烁体结构,在保持事件空间信息的前提下,通过镜面反射将事件光在已知位置重复成像,提升光收集效率。我们建立了万花筒闪烁体成像理论,并提出算法估计事件的3D位置。实验表明,该设计使商用CMOS单光子相机具备足够的光收集能力,可实现先进辐射成像技术所需的高分辨率事件测量。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Scintillators are transparent materials that interact with high-energy particles and emit visible light as a result. They are used in state of the art methods of measuring high-energy particles and radiation sources. Most existing methods use fast single-pixel detectors to detect and time scintillation events. Cameras provide spatial resolution but can only capture an average over many events, making it difficult to image the events associated with an individual particle. Emerging single-photon avalanche diode cameras combine speed and spatial resolution to enable capturing images of individual events. This allows us to use machine vision techniques to analyze events, enabling new types of detectors. The main challenge is the very low brightness of the events. Techniques have to work with a very limited number of photons. We propose a kaleidoscopic scintillator to increase light collection in a single-photon camera while preserving the event's spatial information. The kaleidoscopic geometry creates mirror reflections of the event in known locations for a given event location that are captured by the camera. We introduce theory for imaging an event in a kaleidoscopic scintillator and an algorithm to estimate the event's 3D position. We find that the kaleidoscopic scintillator design provides sufficient light collection to perform high-resolution event measurements for advanced radiation imaging techniques using a commercial CMOS single-photon camera.

辐射成像单光子相机闪烁体三维定位

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